Antonia Wright

Antonia Wright is a Cuban-American artist born in Miami, Florida. Through a multimedia practice of video, coding, performance, photography, sound, light, and sculpture, Wright explores systems of power. The body is a principal element in her work.

Wright received her MFA in Poetry from The New School in New York City in 2004; a postgraduate degree in photography from the International Center of Photography in 2008; and a second MFA in Art Practice from the School of Visual Arts in 2024. Her work has been shown at the Pérez Art Museum, Locust Projects, the Margulies Collection (Miami), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), Frist Art Museum (Nashville), Contemporary Art Center (New Orleans), Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (Arizona), Havana Biennial 2019, and Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. She has participated in artistic residencies at Pioneer Works in New York and Leipzig International Art Program in Germany.

Wright’s work has been presented in publications including The New York Times, Frieze, Artforum, Art in America, Hyperallergic, i-D, New York Magazine, Gotham, and the Miami Herald. She is the recipient of the South Florida Cultural Consortium Award, No Vacancy 2022 Juror’s Choice Award, Oolite Arts Ellies Creator Award, Locust Projects WaveMaker Grant, and a CINTAS Foundation finalist award to artists with Cuban heritage.

Wright gives voice to issues of bodily autonomy and social justice, and her art practice is linked to community involvement and activism. She has been on the board of the Lotus House Women’s Shelter for nearly ten years, and in 2012 she founded its artist residency program. She has also served on the board of directors of Locust Projects and Planned Parenthood.